First of all, when did I ever say anything about the birthers, or whether they were Democrat or Republican?

Second, like the one employee with a wrinkled shirt among the dozen neatly-pressed uniforms, the extreme vocal minority in the Republican Party gets a lot more press than the quiet, reserved bridge builders who were working and caucusing on alternative health and energy bills with conservative and even liberal Democrats over the summer. No one notices the people who are holding honest debates with their fellows, because all the media reports on is the congressman or senator who's in it for the politics.

Third, if it had been up to me, the billions of dollars spent on trying to keep businesses afloat (businesses which still sunk, by the way) would have been better spent giving transition assistance to the workers who lost their jobs. If Chrysler, GM, and a host of other businesses had been allowed to go through bankruptcy proceedings months earlier, then a brief rise in unemployment mitigated by transition dollars would have been all we'd have had to endure while the companies restructured, reopened, and rehired all those workers.

And no, Romney isn't a politician. The fact that he couldn't mount a successful campaign against a RINO like John McCain and a polarizing preacher like Mike Huckabee is proof of that. Romney is and always has been a businessman. He's held exactly one elected office in his entire life. That's the way I like my chief executives: with resumes full of practical experience running businesses, not with running campaigns.